id:			170832
accession number:	2013.322
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.322
updated:		2025-09-30 11:08:42.225000

A charioteer riding through a rocky landscape with an entourage of footmen and musicians, page from a Razm-nama (Book of Wars) adapted from the Sanskrit Mahabharata and translated into Persian by Mir Ghiyath al-Din Ali Qazvini, known as Naqib Khan (Persian, d. 1614), 1616–17. Attributed to Yusuf Ali (Indian, active early 1600s). Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; page: 43.5 x 28.3 cm (17 1/8 x 11 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection, 2013.322

title:				A charioteer riding through a rocky landscape with an entourage of footmen and musicians, page from a Razm-nama (Book of Wars) adapted from the Sanskrit Mahabharata and translated into Persian by Mir Ghiyath al-Din Ali Qazvini, known as Naqib Khan (Persian, d. 1614)
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creation date:			1616–17
creation date earliest:		1616
creation date latest:		1617
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creditline:			Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
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culture:	India, Mughal, 17th century;made for Abd al-Rahim the Khan Khanan
technique:	Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art - Mughal
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Yusuf Ali (Indian, active early 1600s)  - artist

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measurements: Page: 43.5 x 28.3 cm (17 1/8 x 11 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Indian gallery rotation</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 2, 2015-March 15, 2016).', 'opening_date': '2015-11-02T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Hagop Kevorkian (1872–1962), New York, NY
	date: before 1962–1970
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	(Sotheby’s, London, England. Highly Important Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures: The Property of the Kevorkian Foundation, 7 December 1970 sale, lot 110)
	date: December 7, 1970
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	Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim Collection
	date: 1970–2013
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2013–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Mace, Sonya Rhie, Mohsen Ashtiany, Catherine Glynn, Pedro Moura Carvalho, Marcus Fraser, and Ruby Lal. <em>Mughal Paintings: Art and Stories: the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. London: D Giles Limited, 2016.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. cat. 50
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	"Exhibitions.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> vol. 56, no. 5 (September/October 2016): 4.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 4 (recto)
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2016-05/page/n1/mode/2up

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